Hold That Moon

03:24

Performer: Tom Murphy

Writers: Tom Murphy/Jerry Silverstein

Story

One of our earliest songs, the hook actually came from Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd where the barber says "I once held the moon in the palm of my hand and let it slip away." Tom and I wrote about a couple for whom the moonlight that shines into their room on a night that they're fighting reminds them of the moonlight that was there when they first fell in love.